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Paxton Quigley

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Coming from a liberal, mid-western, anti-gun background, Paxton Quigley made an about-face when her best friend was raped. She vowed not to let it happen to her. She bought a gun and became an expert on self-defense. Her first book Armed & Female was a best seller. She became a spokesperson for Smith & Wesson and a firearms instructor.

  • graduate of Northwestern University in Communications
  • Masters Degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago
  • 1968 presidential-campaign staff of Senator Robert Kennedy
  • Helped create the National Committee for Handgun Control
  • wrote a political science text- book
  • wrote a cartoon book on pregnancy for non-English speakers
  • director of community relations for Playboy Enterprises
  • a close friend was raped at home 10 minutes before police answered her emergency call for help
  • 1989 author “Armed & Female.”
  • as a firearms instructor, has taught 7,000 women how to shoot a handgun for self-defense
  • April 27, 1995 author “Not an Easy Target: Paxton Quigley’s Self-Protection for Women“
  • August 30, 2005 author “Stayin’ Alive: Armed and Female in an Unsafe World”
  • September 15, 2010 author “Armed &  Female: Taking Control“
  • spokesperson for Smith & Wesson
  • was Yoko Ono’s  bodyguard
  • has appeared on more than 300 TV and radio shows
  • hosts a radio show called “Cannabis Healing With Paxton Quigley,”

She trained at

  • Executive Security International
  • Lethal Force Institute
  • Gunsite Academy



Stoeger

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established in 1923
New York, New Jersey, Maryland

  • 1923 Alexander F. Stoeger
    – issued a price list from his New York City shop
    – sole authorized importer of Mauser and Luger Guns & Ammo
  • producer and importer of firearms
  • biggest firearms retailer in New York City
  • located in South Hackensack, New Jersey
  • Stoeger Publishing Company
    – Stoeger Publishing Co is the author of Shooter’s Bible
  • 1990s, the Stoeger company was purchased by Finnish rifle manufacturer Sako
  • 1994 American-made version of the Luger
  • 2000 Sako was acquired by Beretta Holding Group
    – placed under Benelli USA
    – moved to Accokeek, Maryland

Stoeger Industries
901 Eighth Street
Pocomoke, MD 21851

(301) 283-6981

stoegerindustries.com

Savage Arms

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founded in 1894
Westfield, Massachusetts & Canada

  • 1892 Arthur Savage designed a rifle for Colt
    – magazine in the stock, not under the barrel
    – but contract was won by the Krag–Jørgensen
  • 1894 Savage Arms founded by Arthur Savage in Utica, New York
  • 1895 Model 1895 the first hammerless lever-action rifle
    – Savage invented the rotary magazine rifle
  •  one of six companies to participate in the United States Army trials for a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol
  • 1897 – 1999 Model 99 lever-action rifle made for 102 years
  • 1908 invented the removable box magazine
    – but his patent expired in 1942
  • .300 Savage. Savage
  •  merged with the Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Company
  • World War I
    – produced Lewis machine guns in Sharon, Pennsylvania
    – produced Model 1899 muskets
  • 1919 approached by Chief Lame Deer to buy rifles for his tribe in New York
    – Lame Deer offered Savage to use his image as its logo in exchange for discounted rifles and an annual fee
  • 1091 – Arthur Savage moved to Duarte, California, and formed the Savage Tire company, he invented radial tires
  • 1920, Savage Arms bought Stevens Arms of Chicopee Falls, MA
  • 1929 Savage acquired the A.H. Fox Gun company of Philadelphia and moved production to Utica, New York
  • 1939 Model 24 combination gun
  • World War II
    – made most of the Thompson submachine guns used in World War II
    –  produced the British No. 4 Lee–Enfield bolt-action rifle
  • 1969 Canadian operations began called Lakefield Arms
    –     Lakefield, Ontario
  • 2002 the AccuTrigger
  • 2018 Savage Arms is still paying the annual fee to Lame Deer

Ammunition

  • 1894 –  .303 Savage
  • 1912 – .22 Savage Hi-Power
  • 1915 – .250-3000 Savage
  • 1920 – .300 Savage

Eleanor Roosevelt

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October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962

  • 1933 – 1945  First Lady of the United States
  • 1957 – New York CCW
  • she carried a pistol instead of Secret Service protection

“After the head of the Secret Service found I was not going to allow an agent to accompany me everywhere, he went one day to Louis Howe [FDR’s secretary], plunked a revolver down on the table and said ‘Well, all right, if Mrs. Roosevelt is going to drive around the country alone, at least ask her to carry this in the car.’”

Eleanor’s autobiography

“When Roosevelt defied death threats by the Ku Klux Klan to travel  to Tennessee in 1958 to attend a civil rights workshop, she and the woman who picked her up at the Nashville airport drove to the conference with ‘a loaded pistol on the front seat between them.’”

her biographer Allida Black

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, “You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys to a More Fulfilling Life”

Ithaca Gun Company

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established  in 1883
in Ithaca, New York

  • firearms based on expired patents owned by Remington Arms
  • also purchased patents from other firearm designers
  • 1883 established the original Ithaca Gun Company
    – original factory was located in the Fall Creek
    – nearby waterfall supplied the main source of energy
  • 1895 Emil Flues invented a double barrel shotgun with only three moving parts per barrel
  • 1907 Ithaca bought the patent and upgraded the design
    – became the best selling American double of all time
    – Ithaca drove Remington out of the double gun market
  • World War II produced the M1911 pistol
  • Korean War produced the M3 Grease Gun
  • 1967 was sold to Jerry Baldritch & Assoc
  • December 1978 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
  • September 1985 filed bankruptcy a second time
  • 1987 new owners Ithaca Acquisition, Inc.
    – moved to King Ferry, New York
  • 1989, Remington purchased the Mag-10 shotgun
    – they produced as the SP-10
  •  2002 and 2004 moved 6,000 tons of lead-contaminated material
    – with cost of $4.8 million
  • 2005 moved to larger facilities in Auburn, NY
  • 2005 sold all assets, trademarks, and manufacturing rights to the Marshalls from Upper Sandusky, Ohio
  • All prints, programs, and processing were converted to CNC
  • March 2006 original factory was condemned only the smokestack remains
    – lead  Superfund remediation effort
  • June 2007 Dave Dlubak purchased the company
  • 2015 more clean up necessary
  • Annie Oakley used an Ithaca Flues model in her competition and exhibition shooting
  •  John Philip Sousa – the Sousa Grade, a shotgun in his honor

 

 

Ithaca Gun Company
420 N. Warpole Street
Upper Sandusky, OH 43351

419-294-4113

ithacagun.com

 

Karl Frederick

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Feb 2, 1881 – Feb 11, 1963

  • 1920 competed in Summer Olympics
    – won the gold medal in the individual free pistol event
    – won two gold medals as member of the American team in the team 50 metre free pistol competition
  • 1934 – 1935 President of the National Rifle Association
  • 1934 – testified during hearings on the National Firearms Act

 

“I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I seldom carry one. I have when I felt it was desirable to do so for my own protection. I know that applies in most of the instances where guns are used effectively in self-defense or in places of business and in the home. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses

“I believe in regulatory methods. I think that makes it desirable that any such regulations imposed should not impose undue hardships on the law-abiding citizens and that they should not obstruct him in the right of self-defense, but that they should be directed exclusively, so far as possible, to suppressing the criminal use, or punishing the criminal use of weapons.”

Charles Daly

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1875 – 1919
New York City

  • October 12, 1839 Charles Daly was born in New York City
  • 1875  began importing firearms into New York City
    – Charles Daly and August Shoverling
    – from the city of Suhl in what was then Prussia (Russia)
  • 1887 Shoverling and Daly were joined by a third partner named Joseph Gales
  • 1899 Charles Daly died suddenly
    – Charles Howard Daly (son) took his place
  • 1919 the partnership was sold to Henry Modell
  • 1927 sold to the Walzer family
    – owned Sloan’s Sporting Goods in Ridgefield, Connecticut
  • 1976 Sloan’s sold the Charles Daly trademark to
    – Outdoor Sports Headquarters Inc. (OSHI)
    – sporting goods wholesaler in Dayton, Ohio
  • 1996, OSHI was sold to
    – Jerry’s Sport Center
    – firearm wholesaler in Forest City, Pennsylvania
  • 1996 bought by KBI, Inc. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    – “Charles Daly, The Shooting Sports Specialist”
  • 2008, KBI formed Charles Daly Defense
    – a new division to build Charles Daly Defense AR-15
  • January 29, 2010 Charles Daly and KBI were going out of business
  • January 2012, Charles Daly and CD Defense
    – announced their return to the US market
    – with Trans World Arms LLC of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • September 2012 Charles Daly trademark acquired by Samco Global Arms, Inc. (SGAI) in Miami, Florida
  • 2017 the Charles Daly trademark bought by Chiappa Firearms

 

H&R Firearms

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Harrington & Richardson

founded in 1871 – 2015
Massachusetts

  • 1875 Harrington & Richardson = Nathan Harrington and William Richardson (former S&W employee)
    – Harrington was president
    – Richardson was treasurer
  • 1871 – 1877 at 18 Manchester Street, Worcester, MA
  • 1877 – 1894 at  31 Hermon Street, Worcester, MA
  • 1897 Harrington and Richardson both passed away
    – held by  Harrington’s son and Richardson’s wife
  • 1894 new facility in Worcester, Massachusetts
  • 1950 new facility in Drummondville, Québec, Canada
  • 1960s was acquired by the Kidde corporation
  • 1986 original H&R company went out of business, and building was demolished
  • Was in business for over a century from 1871 to 1986
  • 1991 – H&R 1871, Inc., was formed
    – using original H&R designs
  • November 2000 bought by Marlin Firearms
  • December, 2007 acquired by Remington Arms Company
  • 2008 production was moved to Ilion, N.Y.
  • February 27, 2015 – “H&R 1871” ceased production

 

Marlin Firearms

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1870
Connecticut, New York, Kentucky

  • 1870 founded by John Marlin in North Haven, Connecticut
  •  side ejection lever action rifles
    – good for shooters who need to use optics
  • World War I one of the largest machine gun producers
    –  M1895 Colt–Browning
  • 1917 bought Hopkins & Allen Arms Company
  • 1953 patented MicroGroove Rifling
  • Nov 2000 purchased  H&R 1871, Inc
  • Dec 2007 bought by Remington Arms
  • 2010 moved to Remington plants
    – Ilion, New York
    – Mayfield, Kentucky

https://marlin-collectors.com/forum/

1-800-544-8892

marlinfirearms.com

Harriet Tubman

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March 1822 – March 10, 1913

  • Araminta “Minty” Ross
  • Born into slavery
  • 1844 – Married John Tubman
  • changed her name from Araminta to Harriet soon after her marriage
  • 1849 – escaped and made 13 missions to rescue 70+ slaves
  • Tubman carried a small revolver, and was not afraid to use it
  • 1858 – met abolitionist John Brown and became “General Tubman” when she helped him plan his raid (that he was killed for)
  • 1859 – Purchased property in Auburn, New York
  • 1860 – her last rescue mission
  • Civil War worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy
  • 1863 – The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war
  • June 1 & 2, 1863 – Tubman guided the raid at Combahee Ferry wich liberated 700+ slaves
  • 1865 She returned home to NY
  • 1869 – Her biography was published – Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
  • 1886 – Volume 2 was published – Harriet, the Moses of her People
  • 1889 – Congress passed and President William McKinley finally approved a $20 per month pension for some of her efforts during the Civil War
  • 1896 – keynote speaker at first meeting of  National Federation of Afro-American Women
  • 1908 – Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged  opened on her NY property
  • 1913 – She was buried with semi-military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, NY
  • 1937 – Her grave marker was erected by the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs
  • 1999 – Her grave was added to National Register of Historic Places

“There was one of two things I had a right to”, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other”

Tubman